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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(edit for verdict) October 1985 - FBI Official Says Mormon Bias Prevented Firing of Spy Suspect
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FBI Official Says Mormon Bias Prevented Firing of Spy Suspect
Bernardo (Matt) Perez, formerly the second ranking FBI official in Los Angeles, said he was blocked from firing Miller in December, 1982, by the head of the Los Angeles office, Richard T. Bretzing, who is a Mormon bishop.
We talked about Mr. Millers work record, Perez said, recounting a conversation he recalled having with Bretzing. From my personal knowledge, he was a bumbler. He was in all sorts of trouble. He was more than the office joke; he was the FBI joke.
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Perez, a Roman Catholic who filed a religious discrimination complaint against Bretzing last year, said Bretzing told him that he should let P. Bryce Christensen, another Mormon agent who personally supervised Miller as a counterintelligence agent, handle the Miller matter.
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Miller, 48, was arrested Oct. 2, 1984, along with Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov on charges of passing secret FBI information to the Soviet Union. He is the first FBI agent ever charged with espionage.
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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pqKT85BOniMJ:https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-10-03-mn-645-story.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntu
update to old article about court case - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-01-mn-4259-story.html
October 1, 1988
FBI Discriminated Against Latino Agents, Judge Rules
EL PASO The FBI suffered a major embarrassment Friday when a U.S. district judge ruled that hundreds of Latino agents have been discriminated against and regularly assigned to demeaning duties commonly known as the Taco Circuit.
The ruling, issued here by U.S. District Judge Lucius D. Bunton, was heralded as a landmark by the FBI agent who filed the initial suit, Bernardo Matias (Matt) Perez, a former top FBI official in Los Angeles now serving as assistant special agent-in-charge of the El Paso office.
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Although the class-action suit was decided in El Paso, its origins were in Los Angeles, where Perez filed his first discrimination complaint in 1983 during a prolonged dispute with then agent-in-charge Richard T. Bretzing.
-link may be a paywall at LATimes https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-01-mn-4259-story.html
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(edit for verdict) October 1985 - FBI Official Says Mormon Bias Prevented Firing of Spy Suspect (Original Post)
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